[GRLUG] Editors

[john-thomas richards]

On Fri, Nov 02, 2007 at 09:50:26AM -0400, Justin Denick wrote:
> On 11/2/07, Benjamin Eavey <ben at eavey.com> wrote:
> > Justin Denick wrote:
> > > On 11/2/07, *Benjamin Eavey* <ben at eavey.com <mailto:ben at eavey.com>>
> > wrote:
> > >     Justin Denick wrote:
> > >      > I used to use vim exclusively, but I like having the ability to
> > >     scroll,
> > >      > and I don't get that with vim.
> > >
> > >     You don't?  Weird...  works for me.
> > >
> > > With a mouse or the keyboard?
> >
> > Both.  I don't generally use the mouse, but I can.  Just tried it to
> > make sure I was remembering correctly.
> 
> Hmm, for the past 4 years I just thought that vim was anti-mouse. I guess, I
> have to turn something on.

For the past ten years I thought it was the vim *user* that was anti-mouse.
:-)

Years ago when I was in the trucking maintenance industry, we hired a
consultant to make some changes to our in-house Informix database.  This guy
had about ten different telnet sessions opened up and was editing two or three
files in each session with vi (not vim; old SCO UNIX box).  He was accessing
the server from a Windows machine.  I do not think he touched the mouse once.
Literally.  This guy knew more about vi than anyone I have ever seen.  He was
amazing.  He was not writing a lot of 4GL code, but he was editing a *ton* of
it.  I don't think I know a quarter of the vi commands he knows and I have
been using Linux & vim for over ten years.  His hands never left the keyboard.
-- 
john-thomas
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Lots of people think they're charitable if they give away their old clothes
and things they don't want.  It isn't charity to give away things you want
to get rid of and it isn't a sacrifice to do things you don't mind doing.
Myrtle Reed, author (1874-1911)